I want to return to this revelatory interview with co-conspirator John Eastman,...
  • InternetUser2012
    5·
    2 years ago

    I forget the the steps in the GOP playbook. Is this step three, four or five?

    • mo_ztt ✅@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      9·
      2 years ago

      “On Tyranny” lists four basic steps:

      1. A movement arises, ready for violence to “defend” itself from “enemies” by seizing power
      2. It clashes with the preexisting systems of power (police and government)
      3. It overcomes and mingles with those structures of power; violence, to enforce its will and punish its enemies, is no longer punished
      4. Unconstrained, and with the power of the state behind it, it brings horrors to life

      We’ve been at step 2 for a while, I think.